What you desire you call into being.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONEvery house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
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Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.
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In memory Venice is always magic.
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The past is a sorry country.
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It’s the perpetually unfinished quality of housework that makes it oppressive – it never ends, like bad psychoanalysis, or a dream interrupted. It is paradoxically true that it is exactly this daily re-creation of the world that lends housekeeping its nobility and romance.
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
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If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals — and critics of the Women’s Movement.
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Porches are America’s lost rooms.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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Weather creates character.
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There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.
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My mother was my first jealous lover.
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To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort
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truth … is the first casualty of tyranny.
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All our loves are contained in all our other loves.
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